@techreport{Schoeler1999, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Sch{\"o}ler, Klaus}, title = {Internationaler Handel und r{\"a}umliche M{\"a}rkte}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13567}, year = {1999}, abstract = {Contents - Introduction - Free trade in a spatial market - Tariff policy in a spatial market - Non-tariff barriers to trade in a spatial market - Conclusion}, language = {en} } @techreport{Schoeler1999, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Sch{\"o}ler, Klaus}, title = {Wohlfahrt und internationaler Handel in einem Modell der r{\"a}umlichen Preistheorie}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13590}, year = {1999}, abstract = {Contents - Introduction - Free Trade - Optimal Tariff - Import Quota - Comparison of results}, language = {en} } @techreport{Schoeler2000, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Sch{\"o}ler, Klaus}, title = {Regional market areas at the EU border}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13647}, year = {2000}, abstract = {Contens - Introduction - Modell with Trade Policy - Some Numerical Results - Conclusions}, language = {en} } @techreport{Sanner2001, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Sanner, Helge}, title = {Bargaining structure and regional unemployment insurance}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13747}, year = {2001}, abstract = {This study examines how the size of trade unions relative to the la- bor force impacts on the desirability of different organizational forms of self-financing unemployment insurance (UI) for workers, firms, and with reference to an efficiency criterion. For this purpose, we respectively nu- merically compare the outcome of a model with a uniform payroll tax to a model where workers pay taxes according to their systematic risk of unemployment. Our results highlight the importance of the bargaining structure for the assessment of a particular UI scheme. Most importantly, it depends on the size of the unions whether efficiency favors a uniform or a differentiated UI scheme.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Sanner2001, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Sanner, Helge}, title = {Regional unemployment insurance}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13705}, year = {2001}, abstract = {We examine the effects of regionalising the budget of unemployment insurance (UI) on wages, employment, and on UI parameters, which, for their part, determine the agents' preferences concerning such a reform. A numerical example shows that, under reasonable assumptions, the intuition that the reform would enhance efficiency and improve the economic situation of agents from the low- unemployment region to the disadvantage of agents from the high- unemployment region is not valid in general.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Sanner2001, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Sanner, Helge}, title = {Endogenous unemployment insurance and regionalisation}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13761}, year = {2001}, abstract = {Our analysis is concerned with the impact of a regionalisation of unemployment insurance (UI) on workers' preferences, on firms' profits, and on effciency. The existence and the extent of UI are endogenously derived by maximising an objective function of the state. Three different types of regionalisation are considered which differ with respect to the area the UI objective function is related to, and with respect to the policy variable used to maximise it. It comes to light that workers are always in favour of central UI, while it depends on the type of regionalisation whether or not firms are better off with regional or with central UI. The same somewhat surprising result applies for efficiency.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Sanner2003, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Sanner, Helge}, title = {Imperfect goods and labor markets, and the union wage gap}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13949}, year = {2003}, abstract = {Existing theoretical literature fails to explain the differences between the pay of workers that are covered by union agreements and others who are not. This study aims at closing this gap by a single general- equilibrium approach that integrates a dual labor market and a two- sector product market. Our results suggest that the so­ called 'union wage gap' is largely determined by the degree of centralization of the bargains, and, to a somewhat lesser extent, by the expenditure share of the unionized sector's goods.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Sanner2003, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Sanner, Helge}, title = {Imperfect goods and labor markets, regulation, and spillover effects}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13951}, year = {2003}, abstract = {(De)regulatory interventions frequently have unintended cross- market effects, which may or may not be desirable. We assess the effects of three policies on aggregate variables, in particular real income, from a theoretical perspective. Our results suggest that instruments acting upon wages have only a weak impact on real income, whereas the distribution of income is affected strongly. In contrast, a policy that enhances product market competition is fostering real income, but also impacts strongly on union wages and the distribution of income.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Petersen2004, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Petersen, Hans-Georg}, title = {Systematic change instead of curing symptoms}, series = {Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeitr{\"a}ge}, journal = {Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeitr{\"a}ge}, number = {45}, issn = {0948-7549}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9004}, pages = {24}, year = {2004}, abstract = {Contents: Actors, Markets and Interest Groups in Health Services Private and Social Health Insurance in a Simple Model Misallocation and Malpractice in Social Health Care and Insurances -The UK Health Care System -The German Social Health Insurance System -Current Discussions: Intertemporal Perspective and Fundamental Change Interplay of Public and Private Health Insurance: Lessons for Countries in Transition Summary: The Necessary Steps to a Fundamental Reform}, language = {en} } @techreport{Becker2004, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Becker, Ralf E.}, title = {Revisiting public investment}, issn = {0948-7549}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9025}, year = {2004}, abstract = {The consumption equivalence method is the theoretical basis of public cost-benefit analysis. Consumption equivalence public capital prices are explicitly introduces in order to sufficiently care for the opportunity cost of public expenditure. This can solve the dispute about the social rate of discount within public cost-benefit analysis witch was generated on a criterion looking similar to the capital value formula, known as Lind's approach. The social rate of discount is liberated from opportunity costs considerations and the discounting away of the effects for future welfare vanishes. The corresponding question whether one should accept a positive value of the pure rate of social time preference is an old issue. Its current state between the prescriptive and descriptive view can also be interpreted as a consequence of the oversimplification of standard cost- benefit analysis. But apart from an economic self-process the pure rate of social time preference is also defined as a business-as-usual value of social distance discounting. Hence, a political choice has to be made about this rate which is free in principal.}, language = {en} }